Glove



(No Model.) 2 ShBG'S-Sheet 2.

L. LIGHTENHBIN. GLOVE.

N6. 666,669. 1366611666 Aug. 26, 1696.

Unire STATES nrnrv'r rrrcn.`

LOUIS IIICIITENIIEIN, OF AMSTERDAM, NEV YORK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Qatent No. 566,589, dated August 25, 1896.

Application filed July 24, 1896. Serial No. 600,442. (No model.)

To all whom may concern;

.Be it known that I, Leurs Lrcnrnnnnin, a citizen of the United States, residing at Anrsterdarn, in the county of Montgomery, State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gloves, of which the following is a description, reference being had to the accompanying dra-wings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

My invention relates to an improvement in gloves, and particularly those .ina-de of silk, lace, knit, and woven fabrics, or the like, and the object of the invention is to provide an iinproved construction of what are called iinger-tipped gloves. i ,Such gloves have heretofore been inade with reinforcing-pieces for the tips of the fingers, such reinforcing-pieces being composed of separate blanks of peculiar shape, which may be placed within the fingertips and connected with the saine at their ends and along the sides by being sewed into the seams between the finger-pieces and fourchettes. Said reinforcing-pieces have also been simply son are integral extensions of the finger-piece. Other ways of reinforcing the iinger-tipshave been devised,but to overcome various defects in such constructions and to provide a simple, durable, and neat appearing and fitting glove iny invention consists primarily, of a glove having the usual hand and linger portions and provided with fourchettes, each having a lateral proj eeting piece adapted to be folded and stitched within the finger-tip, forinin g a reinforce therefor, and, secondarily, it consists in the matters hereinafter described and referred to iu the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate the invention, Figurel is a plan view of the blank of a right-hand glove, to the iingers of one-half of which the fourchettes are stitched by the lines of stitching shown as dotted. Fig. 2 is a plan view representing two of my improved fourchettes, showing the respective lines of stitching by which they are secured to the linger-pieces. Figs. 3 and i rep` resent plan views of other forms of fourchettes-that is, double fourchettes, respectively, for the little linger and the inde reiniger. Figs. 5 and 6 respectively represent plan views of the fourchette for the thuinb and the thumb-blank itself. Fig. 7 is a plan view of the linished glove with the palni side out.

In the drawings, A represents each half of the glove-blank, one of which has the opening a, in which the thumb-blank is secured, and each half of which has the index-finger strip h and little-linger strip c.

B represents the fourchettes, which are shown in Fig. 2 as having lateral angular proj ecting integral portions C, formed on a straight line along their lower edges, and are stitched to the nger-pieees along the lines indicated, iirst being stitched before the blank is folded along one of the lines and then, after folding, along the other. The angular entensions G of the fourchettes are then folded within the interior of the finger-tip and are seanied with the outer line of said angular projection sewed in the seam, the top being fastened d own to the glove-linger by stitching.

Fig. 3 shows the fourchette B provided with two angular projections C C, this being adapted for the little linger, while Fig. i shows the fourchette provided with an angular projection of ldouble width, this being adapted especially to the index-finger of the glove.

In Fig. 5 I have shown a forni of fourchette for the thumb which is of the peculiar shape shown, and has the part II and angular projection formed curved along its upper edge to forni the two sections J' J.

In Fig. G the thumb-blank G is shown having the part I, to which the part II of the fourchette is to be seaincd and the parts K K, upon which the parts .I .I are turned, and the thunib then seanied. rlhe finished glove is shown in Fig. 7.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. A glove composed of hand andfinger portions, andfourchettes, each fourchette having at its outer end, a lateral projecting portion secured to the finger-tip, and forming a reinforce,therefor, substantially as described.

2. A glove composed of hand and finger portions, and fourchettes, each fourchette having at its outer end, a lateral projecting portion, secured to the linger-tip forming a rein- IOO end portions K, K, and the fourchette H having at its outer end lateral projections J J. said projections being secured to the end portions K, K, to form a reinforce therefor; subi stantiztiiy es described. v

In testimony Whereof I aix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

LOUIS LICHTENHEIN. Vitnesses:

F. T. I-IUXLEY, J. I-I. HANsoN. 

